Invoker

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Invoker is a base class that uses (mana-like) resources to cast spells which for the time being will be referred to as Focus. Spell cost varies on class level and spell level, but it can be also modified by casting the same spell twice (doubles the cost) or equipping specific items (which will be added in the future).

Due to NWN limitation, Invoker is broken down into 2 selectable classes:

• #Elementalist
• #Hemomancer

NOTE: This is a brand new Class for Arelith. During this early adoption period, some tweaks may happen which will affect the Wiki's accuracy for a small period while things are updated. To stay updated on current changes please visit Arelith Updates!

Introduction

Arelith Invokers brings in a different style of gameplay where you have to manage your Focus in order to cast your spells. You can restrain yourself and be reliable while casting for hours, or decide to go nuclear and blast with everything you have. Eighter way, you will have to learn to manage your Focus and use a rotation that fits your gameplay while saving your resources.

Invokers are split into #Elementalist (that draw energy from the elements around them) and #Hemomancer (that specialize on drawing energy from living beings and other creatures that have blood on their veins).

All invoker paths are essentially the same class. This means that you are forbidden to take Hemomancer levels if you are an Elementalist, and you can't take Elementalist levels if you are a Hemomancer. You are also forbidden to take other full caster classes (Druid, Cleric, Sorcerer, Wizard, Favored Soul, etc). Read more about restrictions in #Restrictions

Class Mechanics

Requirements

Alignment restrictions: none (#Elementalist) or non-good (#Hemomancer)

Class Features

Hit die: d6

Proficiencies: weapons (simple), armor (light)

Skill points: 4 + int modifier ((4 + int modifier) * 4 at 1st level)

Class Skills: bluff, concentration, craft mastery, heal, leadership, lore, sail, spellcraft

Unavailable feats: weapon specialization

Primary saving throw(s): will (#Elementalist), will and fort (#Hemomancer),

Base attack bonus: +1/2 level

Spellcasting: Spellcasting: Arcane (spell failure from armor is a factor), charisma-based (a base charisma score of 10 + the spell's level is required to cast a spell, and the charisma modifier affects spell DCs), and spontaneous cast (no spell preparation required). Focus serves as a payment for casting spells. Spell level influence their cost, and some more powerful spells have increased cost to them. Also casting a spell after you have just casted it, double it's cost.

Level Progression

Hit points rolls on Arelith are always maximum.

				Focus cost (base)											Known spells
Level	BAB	HP		0th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th		0th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+0	4		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2nd	+1	8		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3rd	+1	12		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4th	+2	16		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		6	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5th	+2	20		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		6	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6th	+3	24		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		7	4	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
7th	+3	28		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		7	5	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
8th	+4	32		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		7	5	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
9th	+4	36		0	1	2	2	2.5	2.5	4	6	8	8		7	5	4	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
10th	+5	40		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	4	3	2	1	-	-	-	-
11th	+5	44		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	3	2	-	-	-	-
12th	+6/+1	48		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	3	2	1	-	-	-
13th	+6/+1	52		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	4	3	2	-	-	-
14th	+7/+2	56		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	4	3	2	1	-	-
15th	+7/+2	60		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	4	4	3	2	-	-
16th	+8/+3	64		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	4	4	3	2	1	-
17th	+8/+3	68		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	-
18th	+9/+4	72		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	1
19th	+9/+4	76		0	0.5	1	1	1.25	1.25	2	3	4	4		7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	2
20th	+10/+5	80		0	0.25	0.25	0.5	0.62	0.62	1	1.5	2	2		7	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3

Epic Invoker

Bonus feats: The epic invoker gains a bonus feat every three levels after 20th. In other words, at levels 23, 26, and 29.

Epic bonus feats: automatic quicken spell, automatic silent spell, automatic still spell, epic energy resistance, epic spell focus, epic spell penetration, epic spell: dragon knight, epic spell: epic mage armor, epic spell: greater ruin, epic spell: hellball, great charisma, improved combat casting

Unavailable epic feats: epic weapon specialization, outsider shape, construct shape, dragon shape, undead shape

Level	Feats	HP
21st	Epic Arcane Caster	126
22nd		132
23rd	Epic Bonus Feat	138
24th		144
25th		150
26th	Epic Bonus Feat	156
27th		162
28th	Enchew Spell Components	168
29th	Epic Bonus Feat	174
30th		180

Restrictions

When thinking of your build, there are some restrictions that you must have in mind:

• Invoker will not gain the benefit of the Dark Blessing class feature (Cha to saves).
• Invoker will not gain the benefit of the Divine Grace class feature (Cha to saves).
• Invoker will not gain the benefit of Divine Shield feat (Cha to AC).
• Invoker sub-classes (Elementalist - Hemomancer) can't be mixed, one prevents the other.
• Invoker, as a caster with unique mechanics, can't be mixed with other full casters: Druid, Cleric, Sorc, Wiz, FavSoul, Shaman (it will force 1 level retake).

Arelith Changes

Change	Level	Description
Summoning Changes	-	For specifics, read Summoning Changes which details how summons are changed on Arelith and Summons which details each specific summon stream and what is summoned at each tier of the stream.
Spell changes	-	For specifics, see Spell changes.
Spell components	-	Requires spell components (made with Alchemy or Art Crafting) to cast spells greater than level 6. Level 7 spells cost 1. Level 8 spells cost 2. Level 9 spells cost 3.

Elementalist

Invoker trained to gather and use surrounding energy to cast spells. It is the closest to what the True-Frost path was.

Level	BAB	Fort	Reflex	Will	Feats
1st	+0	+0	+0	+2
2nd	+1	+0	+0	+3
3rd	+1	+1	+1	+3
4th	+2	+1	+1	+4
5th	+2	+1	+1	+4	Path Selection; Path Feature I
6th	+3	+2	+2	+5	Silent Spell
7th	+3	+2	+2	+5
8th	+4	+2	+2	+6
9th	+4	+3	+3	+6
10th	+5	+3	+3	+7	Path Feature II; Auto Quicken I; Invoking Adept
11th	+5	+3	+3	+7
12th	+6	+4	+4	+8	Elemental Overcharge
13th	+6	+4	+4	+8
14th	+7	+4	+4	+9
15th	+7	+5	+5	+9	Path Feature III; Auto Quicken II
16th	+8	+5	+5	+10
17th	+8	+5	+5	+10
18th	+9	+6	+6	+11
19th	+9	+6	+6	+11
20th	+10	+6	+6	+12	Path Feature IV; Invoking Mastery

Path Features

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Once your character reaches level 5, you will have to select your path as a bonus feat. Your path will define the passive bonus that you will get on levels 5, 10, 15 and 20 as shown on the table below:

Passive Bonuses & Elemental Savant:
Path	I (5th level)	II (10th level)	III (15th level)	IV (20th level)
Fire	Energy Resistance: 10 Save Bonus: Universal +1 AC bonus: Deflection +1	Energy Resistance: 10 Save Bonus: Universal +2 AC bonus: Deflection +2 Immune to Sleep	Energy Resistance: 20 Save Bonus: Universal +3 AC bonus: Deflection +3 Immune to Sleep Skill Bonus: Leadership +5 (soft)	Energy Resistance: 30 Save Bonus: Universal +4 AC bonus: Deflection +4 Immune to Sleep Skill Bonus: Leadership +5 (soft) Skill Bonus: Intimidate +5 (soft)
Air	Energy Resistance: 10 Concealment: Ranged Attacks: 20%	Energy Resistance: 10 Concealment: Ranged Attacks: 30% Movement Speed Increase: 10%	Energy Resistance: 20 Concealment: Ranged Attacks: 40% Movement Speed Increase: 20% AC bonus: Dodge +2 Skill Bonus: Climb +6 (soft)	Energy Resistance: 30 Concealment: Ranged Attacks: 50% Movement Speed Increase: 30% AC bonus: Dodge +3 Skill Bonus: Climb +10 (soft)
Earth	Energy Resistance: 10 Damage Recuction: 2/+5	Energy Resistance: 10 Damage Recuction: 3/+5 Immunity to Poison	Energy Resistance: 20 Damage Recuction: 4/+5 Immunity to Poison Damage Immunity: 5% vs Piercing Skill Bonus: Discipline +6 (soft)	Energy Resistance: 30 Damage Recuction: 5/+5 Immunity to Poison Damage Immunity: 5% vs Piercing Damage Immunity: 5% vs Slashing Skill Bonus: Discipline +6 (soft)
Water	Energy Resistance: 10 Regeneration: 1 Water Breathing	Energy Resistance: 10 Regeneration: 1 Water Breathing AC bonus: Natural +2	Energy Resistance: 20 Regeneration: 2 Water Breathing AC bonus: Natural +3 Skill Bonus: Sail +6 (soft)	Energy Resistance: 30 Regeneration: 3 Water Breathing AC bonus: Natural +5 Skill Bonus: Sail +10 (soft)

Signature Ability: Elemental Overcharge

The Elementalist attempts to channel spellfire to invoke spells instead of using focus. For the duration of this ability, spells will have no focus cost, they will instead damage the caster.

Note: Focus will be set to 50 if was greater at the time of using the ability. If it lower it is not increased. For each 10 focus burned the duration is extended.

• Duration: Base 5 rounds + Levels + Focus Burned (above 50):

• Levels:

Level: 15+ (req Hard Charisma 18+): +1

Level: 18+ (req Hard Charisma 18+): +1

Level: 21+ (req Hard Charisma 22+): +1

Level: 24+ (req Hard Charisma 22+): +1

Level: 27+ (req Hard Charisma 24+): +1

Level: 30 (req Hard Charisma 24+): +3

• Focus Burned (above 50):

10 burned (req Hard Charisma 20+): + 1

20 burned (req Hard Charisma 22+): + 1

30 burned (req Hard Charisma 24+): + 2

40 burned (req Hard Charisma 26+): + 2

50 burned (req Hard Charisma 28+): + 3

• Damage while casting:

• Spell level 1 to 3: 2d2 force dmg
• Spell level 4 to 6: 2d4+2 force dmg (2d8+2 force dmg - if the spell was consecutively cast)
• Spell level 7 to 9: 3d4+3 force dmg (3d8+3 force dmg - if the spell was consecutively cast)

• Additional effects:

• Elementalist receives penalty to AC (20)
• Elementalist receives immunity to silence
• During Elemental Overcharge a magic surge can happen.

• Chance based on spell level:

1 to 3: 0%

4 to 6: 3% (6% if same spell cast consecutively)

7 to 9: 5% (10% if same spell cast consecutively)

Focus Recovery

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As shown on the table, your maximun ammount of Focus (your mana-like resource) is 100. You can restore it up to 75 by resting or up to 100 by waiting for server ticks (every 6 minutes).

The ammount you recover depends on your Focus, the less you have, more you recover.

Let's say you are with 0 Focus and decide to go roleplay.

• After 6 minutes, you will recover 20 (total 20)
• on the next Server Tick, you will recover 15 (total 35)
• on the third Server Tick, you will recover 15 (total 50)
• after that you will get 10 from every tick until you hit 100 (Max Focus)

This way, an Elementalist will reach max focus after 48 minutes (assuming he hasn't spent any focus)

Focus
Max Focus	100
Max Rest Focus*	75
Focus on Server Tick <20	20
Focus on Server Tick 20..50	15
Focus on Server Tick 50..100(max)	10
On Rest	7.5 per tick (8 ticks)

• Max Rest Focus means the rest will only increase Focus to 75. Server Tick can increase it further to 100.

Spells

Cantrips	1st level spells	2nd level spells
Acid Splash Electric Jolt Flare Light Ray of Frost	Burning Hands Chromatic Orb Endure Elements Expeditious Retreat Grease Horizikaul's Boom Ice Dagger Mage Armor Magic Missile Shelgarn's Persistent Blade Shield	Balagarn's Iron Horn (+1.00 Cost) Cloud of Bewilderment (+0.25 Cost) Combust Continual Flame Elemental Weapon Frostbite Gedlee's Electric Loop Gust of Wind Lesser Dispel Melf's Acid Arrow Resist Elements Scorching Ray Sound Burst Ultravision
3rd level spells	4th level spells	5th level spells
Call Lightning Dispel Magic Fireball Flame Arrow Frost Nova Lightning Bolt Protection from Elements Scintillating Sphere See Invisibility Slow	Bigby's Disrupting Hand (+0.50 Cost) Flame Shield Frost Shield Haste (+1.00 Cost) Ice Storm Issac's Lesser Missile Storm Sound Lance Stoneskin Wall of Fire (+2.00 Cost) Wall of Ice (+2.00 Cost)	Ball Lightning Bigby's Interposing Hand (+0.50 Cost) Cone of Cold Elemental Hammer (+0.50 Cost) Firebrand Lesser Spell Mantle Lightning Shield Mestil's Acid Breath Mordenkainen's Sword Sunfire
6th level spells	7th level spells	8th level spells
Bigby's Forceful Hand (+0.50 Cost) Chain Lightning Crumble Energy Buffer Freedom of Movement (+5.00 Cost) Freeze Greater Stoneskin Inferno Isaac's Greater Missile Storm Lesser Spell Breach (+2.00 Cost) Mestil's Acid Sheath (+2.00 Cost)	Bigby's Grasping Hand (+1.00 Cost) Daltim's Fiery Tentacles (+5.00 Cost) Delayed Blast Fireball Firestorm Greater Dispelling Prismatic Spray Spell Mantle (+1.50 Cost) Summon Creature VII True Seeing (+5.00 Cost) Vitriolic Sphere	Bigby's Clenched Fist (+2.00 Cost) Earthquake Glacial Wrath Great Thunderclap Incendiary Cloud (+2.00 Cost) Summon Creature VIII Sunbeam Sunburst
9th level spells	Epic spells
Bigby's Crushing Hand (+2.00 Cost) Elemental Annihilation (+1.00 Cost) Greater Spell Mantle (+3.50 Cost) Iceberg Mass Haste (+7.5 Cost) Meteor Swarm Mordenkainen's Disjunction (+7.5 Cost) Summon Creature IX	Dragon Knight Epic Mage Armor Greater Ruin Hellball

Hemomancer

Invoker trained to burn own life's energy to cast spells. Each spell invoked has a % chance to award the caster with a Blood Stack (1 each, 10 max). Blood Stacks (BS) are consumed by signature spells and abilities, the effects will be the more potent the more BS are burned. Starting from the 2nd level, hemomancer gains Red Harvest ability (works only against living targets), which can leech life force off a target and restore some of IP. It is stronger the more BS it consumes. Hemomancer path spells are can't surge.

Level	BAB	Fort	Reflex	Will	Feats
1st	+0	+2	+0	+2
2nd	+1	+3	+0	+3	Red Harvest Ability
3rd	+1	+3	+1	+3
4th	+2	+4	+1	+4
5th	+2	+4	+1	+4
6th	+3	+5	+2	+5	Silent Spell
7th	+3	+5	+2	+5
8th	+4	+6	+2	+6
9th	+4	+6	+3	+6
10th	+5	+7	+3	+7	Path Feature I; Auto Quicken I; Invoking Adept
11th	+5	+7	+3	+7
12th	+6	+8	+4	+8
13th	+6	+8	+4	+8
14th	+7	+9	+4	+9
15th	+7	+9	+5	+9	Path Feature II; Auto Quicken II
16th	+8	+10	+5	+10
17th	+8	+10	+5	+10
18th	+9	+11	+6	+11
19th	+9	+11	+6	+11
20th	+10	+12	+6	+12	Path Feature IV; Invoking Mastery; Eye Glow (toggle feat)

Path Features

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Once your character reaches level 10, you will get your first Path Feature. These features will define the passive bonus that you will get on levels 10, 15 and 20 as shown on the table below:

Passive Bonuses
Path Feature I	Path Feature II	Path Feature III
Skill Bonus: Concentration +3 Save Bonus: Death +1 Save Bonus: Fear +2	Skill Bonus: Concentration +6 Save Bonus: Death +2 Save Bonus: Fear +4 Regeneration: 1 Immunity to Disease	Skill Bonus: Concentration +9 Save Bonus: Death +3 Regeneration: 1 Immunity to Disease Immunity to Fear See Invisible

Signature Ability: Red Harvest

A short-range ability to leech living targets and regain IP. (Burns blood stacks). DC 16 + CHA MOD + Spell foci (evocation) CD 18 seconds.

Does not work on: Objects, Constructs, Elementals, Oozes, Undead (except vampires).

Dmg type: Bleeding.

Dmg: d6 / 2 CL + d6 / 1 blood stack.

Healing: 25% of the damage done.

Focus leeching: 1 + (1 from CLs: 10, 20, 27) + 1 per [BS] (min 1 max 14).

Blood Stack [BS] burn:
>= 1	+Food, +Water by [BS] amount.
>= 3	Healing: 33% of the damage done.
>= 5	If the target is not fear immune and fails will save against fear it will be panicked for 6 seconds.
>= 6	Healing: 50% of the damage done.
>= 9	Healing: 75% of the damage done.
==10	Apply empowerment to the caster for 2 in game-hours: Increase dodge AC 3, regeneration 1, Damage Immunity 10%.

Blood Stacks

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Another Resource that the Hemomancer has is the Blood Stack (BS). Every time you cast a spell, you have a chance of getting a BS. BS will be used to improve your signature spells as well as the ammount of Focus you recover when using Red Harvest.

The chance of getting a BS when casting a spell is shown on the table below.

Blood Stack Chance
Spell Level 1	5%
Other Spell Level	SL*8% (i.e) 5th = 40%
A blood stack gain is additionally telegraphed by taking unavoidable bleeding damage (with vfx).
Spell Level 1..3	1 damage
Spell Level 4..6	2 damage
Spell Level 7..9	3 damage

Focus Recovery

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As shown on the table, your maximum ammount of Focus (your mana-like resource) is 75. You can restore it up to 50 by resting or up to 75 by waiting for server ticks (every 6 minutes).

The ammount you recover depends on your Focus, the less you have, more you recover. Your Blood Stacks (BS) also help the recovery.

Let's say you are with 0 Focus and decide to go roleplay.

• After 6 minutes, you will recover 5 (total 5)
• on the next 3 Server Ticks, you will recover 15 (total 20)
• on the next 12 Server Ticks, you will recover 30 (total 50)
• after that you will get 1.25 from every tick until you hit 75 (Max Focus)

This way, a Hemomancer will reach max focus after 116 minutes (assuming he hasn't spent any focus).

But, unlikelly the Elementalists, Hemomancers have the Red Harvest Ability, that will recover an ammount based on your level and BS. For instance, if you are at level 20 and have 10 BS, you will recover 13 (1+10+1+1) when you activate your Red Harvest.

Focus
Max Focus	75
Max Rest Focus*	50
Focus on Server Tick <20	5
Focus on Server Tick 20..50	2.5
Focus on Server Tick 50..75	1.25
On Rest	3.5 per tick (8 ticks)
Red Harvest	1 +(1 Focus per Blood Stack consumed) +1 (at CL10) +1 (at CL20) +1 (at CL27)

• Max Rest Focus means the rest will only increase Focus to 50. Server Tick can increase it further to 75.

Signature Spells

Massacre (Burns blood stacks)

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Caster Level(s): Invoker Hemomancer 7

School: Evocation

Components: Verbal, Somatic

Range: Target

Area of effect: Large, centered on the target

Duration: Instant

Save: Special

Spell Resistance: yes

Description: You attempt to overcharge the target and make it explode. On the failed save, the target takes twice the caster level d4 (max 40d4) damage, fortitude divides the damage by 10, and forces the target to save against fear or be panicked for 1 round. If the target dies from the damage received blood rain is summoned, it weakens all creatures on its path. The spell is more potent with each consumed Blood Stack.

Does not work on: Objects, Constructs, Elementals, Oozes, Undead (except vampires).

Dmg type: Bleeding.

Demoralization debuff: Will save or: - 2 to AC, Saves, AB. -4 to skills (2 rounds).

Blood Stack [BS] burn:
>= 3	DC +1
>= 6	CL is added to dmg.
>= 8	DC +1 Dice changes to d6
==10	CL is added to dmg.

Soul_Shriek (Burns blood stacks)

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Caster Level(s): Invoker Hemomancer 9

School: Evocation [Death]

Components: Verbal, Somatic

Range: Area

Area of effect: Colossal, centered on caster

Duration: Instant

Save: Fortitude

Spell Resistance: yes

Description: You invoke an eruption of primal angst. Each creature within range is subject to 5 damage per caster level. The spell is more potent with each consumed Blood Stack; max damage is capped at 250. Deathward protects against the spell (as anything with death immunity) - think of banshee's but dmg and effects instead of save or die.

Dmg type: Entropy.

Blood Stack [BS] burn:
>= 2	Dmg CL*6
>= 4	Dmg CL*7 DC+1
>= 6	Dmg CL*8
>= 8	Dmg CL*9
==10	Dmg CL*10 DC+1

Roleplay Tips

Invokers are arcane spellcasters that have, to some degree or another, inherent magical power. The reasons for this can be varied. Invokers are known to be produced by magically rich areas (specially by elemental or necromancy magic), simply by virtue of diffusion of magic through the environment. They can be produced by having some amount of magical blood in them from a lineage that includes a magical creature. Invokers can also be produced as a side-effect of a parent having been a sorcerer or wizard. Essentially: exposure to magic produces Invokers. The aptitude doesn't seem to be distilled by distance from its source.

Invokers are, historically, only rarely invokers by choice. It's true that some cultures have eugenics programs that exist purely to produce and train inherent magical talent, and will have culturally sanctioned invokers. Most societies, however, don't mean to produce invokers, they just do.

Invoking tendencies tend to manifest around puberty in humanoid creatures, frequently earlier for already highly magical creatures. These powers generally begin as uncontrolled, unexpected and fairly dangerous. An average commoner has about four hit points, a ray of frost does 1d4+1. You can see how even a teenage invoker in a bit of an angry moment can rather painfully cripple someone. This means that invokers come to be feared, reviled or sequestered away. Nobody expects a invoker in the family, unless they're extremely stoic, or just plain not commoners.

Because magic works in an instinctive way for invokers, they already know how to wave their hands around and what words to say to produce magical effects. These things just happen to them, it's like figuring out you can close one eye at the same time as another. You don't forget it.

Invokers tend to be people that have a bit of a breakdown after discovering their power, and becoming very afraid of what they can do to another person. They become conservative, then, through fear of themselves. Perhaps they were someone that just wanted to ignore their power and remain part of the community, but was forced out or away, as no other could handle what they could, and they needed to leave to defend it. Invokers are also, frequently, sent to wizards to be trained, the people sending them not understanding their power, and the wizard fairly ineffectually trying to channel it into more logical pursuits.

Not to say that all invokers are afraid of themselves. Some become rather absorbed in themselves, believing themselves somehow greater than their peers, and frequently attempting to rescue or aid people with their magical powers, becoming good-hearted but hopelessly romantic. Alternatively some could see their power as placing them above others, and decide it is their prerogative to nurse it until they can strike back against their own community for perceived slights, operating off of a false sense of entitlement to justice.

Mechanics of Invocations

Deciding how and why your character uses its power can be one of the greatest aspects of being a Invoker. How your character found his elemental affinity, or blood affinity, is up to you and is one of the great things of this class.

Charisma, to a Invoker, is essentially a measurement of how overbearing their presence is to the world, just like a sorcerer. How much of a dent they make in society by their existence, how much people are inclined to listen to them, and how much the weave of magic they can sink into. It is, for all intents and purposes, the "weight" of your personality. In this way, it gives invokers power. You can elbow a bit more compliance out of the weave with a bit more weight.

Another fun aspect of creating a invoker is determining the source of their power. They may not even be aware of this source, and it may not even come up, but the way in which it can influence the way your character acts can be a bit of a subtle bonus to those who figure it out.

For instance, Elementalists born on another plane tend to gravitate towards powers that would be closely associated with that plane. A Elementalist born on the Inner Plane of fire, or any genasi, really, would be more likely to harness and invoke using the element from which it is derived. Negatasi frequently become hemomancers. Hemomancers can also be under a curse, or have a bloodline tainted with vampirism or necromancy.

If the invoker's power came from a creature in their lineage, they likely will still have some traits of that creature loitering around in their bloodstream. There are literally hundreds of creatures that humans could have cross-bred with that would produce invokers. This doesn't mean flip open the Monster Manual and choose arbitrarily, but certainly put some thought into the idea of what monstrous or humanoid creature could be in your bloodstream to produce a invoker. The creature could also influence the type of powers that choose to manifest. If one is a invoker derivitive of an Alcor, then have them manifest primarily frost based spells.